ANDY MURRAY would not be a world top-10 player if he had stayed in the UK, his mum Judy claimed yesterday.

Murray was seeded eight for Wimbledon but missed out through a wrist injury as Britain sunk to it's worst performance at SW19 for 17 years. He is largely a product of the Spanish system, moving to the Sanchez Casal Academy in Barcelona at the age of 15 where he was nicknamed 'Lazy English'.

And his mum, now the LTA performance manager, said: "I would be surprised if he had come through in the way he did if he had stayed.

There's not enough people around who have the ambition and belief that you can go far."